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The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
7 paź 2024 · Ohio River, major river artery of the east-central United States. Formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburgh, it flows northwest out of Pennsylvania, then in a general southwesterly direction to join the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois (see photograph),
Ohio River History. The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It ends 981 miles downstream in Cairo, Illinois, where it flows into the Mississippi River. At this convergence, the Ohio is actually larger than the Mississippi.
Dubbed “The Great River” by Indigenous North American tribes, the Ohio River weaves a tapestry of rich history and biodiversity, serving as a vital lifeline and an abundant resource for diverse ecosystems.
9 maj 2018 · The first was the Ohio River Valley Company (sometimes called the Ohio Company of Virginia), formed in 1747 when England's King George II granted London merchants and landed Virginians 200,000 acres (81,000 hectares) west of the Allegheny Mountains. But conflicts with the French stymied British efforts to settle the region and the company failed.
The promise of this first American West drew soldiers, adventurers, speculators, and common folk into the rich lands of the Ohio River Valley and the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Its potential also provoked international rivalries, struggles for political power, appropriation of Native-American lands, and the expansion of slavery beyond the ...
The journal’s focus is the history and culture of the Ohio River Valley and Upper South, including Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and West Virginia. It covers the frontier/pioneer, early National, and antebellum periods; the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the 20th Century, including Civil Rights and urbanization.
